Based on what i've read (and my own treatment) my guess is that your spinal fluid may be either too low or too high. This can be controlled with medication or a shunt to drain off excess fluid. A neurologist can test your spinal fluid level to see if this is the problem. He or she will also be able to rule out any other causes for your headaches. I recommend seeing a neuro with experience treating headache.


-kerrie

Low or high spinal fluid? Ive never heard of anything like that.. Can it lead to anything bad like menijitis or somthing?

Low or high spinal fluid doesn't lead to meningitis, but it's still not a good thing. If it goes untreated for years, someone with it may have trouble thinking, remembering words, and so on.

A doctor can check this out with a spinal tap or mri. It can be controlled with medication or, if the pressure is too high, a shunt that drains the extra fluid. It sounds a little scary, but it's actually relatively mild and treatable.

Sorry it's taken me so long to respond... I haven't been around for a while.

-kerrie

Please get an mr scan done to rule out a cyst in the brain which blocks the csf pathways

Thank you for the responses.. Well so far everything been okay.. But recently it returned again.. So I went about 4 maby 5 weeks withought any problem.. And before those 4 5 weeks I went to the docter and he still said the same thing.. And plus I was getting checked for add so yea.. Can you give me more info on that cyst? I might just print this all out and show my dad because im tired of being worried.


Once again the headaches are weird there not unbearable.. But kind of annoying and it bothers me to the point where I start getting kinda depressed.. I wouldn't say it makes me naseated because I can still eat fine but last night I layed there for a few seconds okay.. Then slowly I can start feeling a slight pressure headache on the back of my head.. I try to lay on my sides which help a lil and the pressure headache starts to slowly get on the side of head where I lay down.. Now if I lay there long enough maby 30 min the headache goes away, sometimes ill feel a faint one coming back but not enough to bother me and keep me awake.. When I wake up I feel I fine and I eat breakfast and go on to school but in a few hours I start getting slight headaches on the side of my head, I think there called temple lobs? Later on my headaches just go away or there is still a slight faint one..


I know I should be going to some special docter for all this but I just don't wanna put my parents through all this trouble and hearing all the mr scan and spinal tap sounds expensive

Oh and also during those 4 5 weeks withought any headaches or problems, I was playing basketball and practice had a lot of running.. After practice I would kind of get a throbbing headache which I thought was normal since my friend also gets them sometimes.. Anyways what i'm trying to say is maby all that running helped it out? I'm not sure but once I got cut from the team which was 2 days ago I started getting the wierd headaches again

James, are you still having the same headaches? Have you learned anything more about the cause or solution?

I started having the symptoms on nov 20th 2005. I have the same problem where I can go to sleep on my side. However, when I turn on my back, I start feeling some pressure in back of head and "drainage" sensation in front of head. Then nausea (and sometimes chills) follow. If I turn to my side, the nausea, chills and headache begin to subside.

During the day, I just feel a little depressed, especially as nighttime approaches. At work, I sit in same position all day as a programmer and am starting to have trouble concentrating toward end of day.

Doctors have tried midrin which did almost no good. And amitriptylin which manages to keep headache away (mostly) during the day but has side effect of fatigue. I'm seeing a headache neurologist specialist tomorrow so hopefully will be able to find out more.

Yes, I still have the headaches and I havn't learned anything new on it.. I don't know whats wrong and im really getting sick of it.. Your symptoms seem pretty similar to mine but I still get those pressure headaches even on my sides but it does help a little to lay on my side and if lay on my side long enough(maby 10 min withought moving) the pain will go away.. On some days I also feel a lil depressed.. I mean not enough to mess up my whole day but I can still talk and stuff to my friends.. Its just a slight wierd feeling and the headaches I have during the day are very light but bother me to where it makes me a lil depresed..

And for your naseated symptoms.. I had that symptoms 3 months ago when I had these same headaches but they just went away and now im just having those pressure headaches when I lay down

if you find some new information from your docter please post it here and thank you for posting, im glad someone else besides me knows what im going though

Have a cat scan, I had the same problem. I was diagnosed with a sphenoid sinus infection. You need very strong antibiotics!

I can lie in bed and not have a headache til after i am asleep. However if i have to get up and go to the loo or anything even turning over in the bed. I can feel a slight headache on my right hand side on the top of my head. For about the same length of time i have had permanant pins and needles in my left hand side (2 smallest fingers). Could this be related?

The headache is there in the morning but only for a few minutes then its gone.

I have similar symptoms to the ones listed above as well.
I wake up with a headache on the side I have slept on.

I have had headaches that are intermittent and dull or strong and throbbing headaches that last hours.

Eyes sore, tired, sometimes throbbing

Little nausea and vomiting once

Dizziness when bending over.

I have had a brain CT scan for tumors as well as my eyes checked and received an all clear on that. I am worried because I have had these symptoms for abut a month and a half and I don't know what it can be and you have to be your own doctor sometimes to figure it out.

I am having the same symptoms...Waking in the middle of the night with severe headache or migraine and nausea. It's been going on for about a month now. I am also freezing when I go to bed, but end up throwing the extra blankets off in the night (no fever). No insurance, so I've not had it checked out yet. Someone told me it could be high blood pressure so I am going to buy a cuff and work from there.

I am a female in my early 30's and never had migrains except while pregnant. (no, i'm not pregnant now.)

Hi,

I too have the nocturnal headaches. I have them when I lie down (regardless whether I sleep), and they can be horrible. No Cluster-headaches, fortunately.

The headaches are always on the right side of my neck and head and I sleep extremely poorly as a result. Usually not more than a few hours; it is pretty debilitating. Most of the days the pain is also present during the day, although significantly less than during the nights.

It is interesting that it matters how I lie in my bed. Lying on my right side makes things worse, lying on my left side is better (less bad).

The good news is that the pains can go away when I lie in a specific position. Lying on my left side leaning on my arm with my head can give almost instant relief. It doesn't always work, but when it does all pain is gone in seconds. Very interesting, to me it shows that a mechanical problem in the neck is the cause of these pains in my neck and head. Anyone else have this??

I'm thinking about Eagle Syndrome, currently trying to get it diagnosed. Is there anyone here to whom this sounds familiar? If yes, I look forward to hearing from you.